"One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen." -John O'Donohue

Hello, my name is Caleb Dodson, I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (LMHCA) offering individual and couples psychotherapy from an existential-relational-analytic framework. What does that mean? It means I focus on who you are right now - and how where you're coming from and where you're going all plays out right now. I specialize in anxiety, trauma, and relationships, and more broadly depression, loneliness, codependency, and a sense of being stuck in life. It's my goal that you can live an authentic life. That you would live a life that you give full consent to. Living a truly happy and fulfilled life where you can expressing yourself and direct your life freely from who you really are.

With hardship comes opportunity, and with desire for change there is hope and a place to start.

It’s not just philosophy and big questions, its about feeling it in your physical body. Because the deepest changes come through relationship with not just others but ourselves. Meaning, in time we'll seek to understand the subtleties that come up within your own experience in life and in the room between the two of us, in the moment, as we work with what you’re feeling and what that means. Taking all these hard feelings you experience and using them to catalyze long-term and deep-rooted change. Along the way these feelings become far less threatening and tough to be with. If you can believe it, eventually they help us live our life. It's the path to living a fulfilled, authentic, and meaningful life.

Exploring our sexual fantasies with no shame, humanizing them and accepting them as an important part of our inner world is no easy thing to do. It requires a constant back and forth between intensity and stability. In time though, it leads to a deeper self-acceptance and positive, long-lasting relationships with ourselves and others.

Feelings are powerful. Without them our lives would have no purpose. The good news is, we can shape and mold our feelings into what we want them to be. We don’t have to be victims of them. In this post, we explore how feelings can promote emotional attachment, survival and a happier life.

We all experience anxiety. In order to push past anxiety and tap into our own creativity, we have to be courageous. We start from a place of fear and sometimes we feel lost. But feeling lost is natural. In this post, we look at how you can find the courage to overcome anxiety to live your best life.

Rest is the key to avoiding physical exhaustion. But what if you can’t rest because you have anxiety? Caleb Dodson is a Seattle based therapist offering counseling to help you learn how to rest the right way. Click here for a better understanding of your resistance to rest.

What is loneliness to you? Is your view of loneliness a negative one? If you’ve found that loneliness is leading to depression and a lack of fulfillment, there is something you can do. This post dives into the topic and gives you tips to combat your own loneliness.